The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-09-13

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now, to onct- You're to get out o. this
, ere camp inside o thirty minutes"
81 find" replied Reynolds, speaking
for the first time, and as if he had ex-
! tracted the information from the hand
, which he laid down, that it will be
impossible for me to remain in your
city. Pressing business, gentlemen,
he continued, with wave of the hand.
"compels me TO leave Golden Sand,
much as should like to remain"
He arose from the table and looked 1T
the committee with a faint smile.
burned eff don't b'lieve yer right "
said Judge Pott, in establishment.
.Quite So" returned Mr.. Reynolds,
81 have carefully canvassed the sub
IJect during the last minute and find
that nothing could induce me to stay
longer than half IN hour. Please have
the goodness to give my respects to
such of my friends as ! will be unable
to see owing to the extreme haste with
which it will be necessary to wind up
my business interests here before walk
4 ing up Vic SuISI'
"Well, you air cool one, sure
enough-hanged if We don't do it fer
ye," replied the astonished Judge Pott.
Reynolds went out and the committee
went on with its work of publication.
A half hour later Doc Reynolds was
seen going along the main street of the
town, which ran straight up Silver Tip
Gulch. Declining an invitation to
drink with some friends ut the Last
Chance saloon he said:
| Unforeseen events make it neces-
sary that / 60 up this gulch few hun
dred miles and look after certain BUSH
ness interests. Time was never more
valuable TO me than now" and he
glanced expressively at rope
ornamental with 4 moose dangling
from the limb of pine tree just
beyond the muddy waters of Galena
creek, which had been placed there as
a warning TO all who had been told to
depart. what they might expect if they
did not comply. He passed on up the
gulch and was soon lost among the
rocks and trees.
1t was whispered among those who
knew that he went away with scarcely
dollar in his pockets, having had very
bad luck for the past few days. The
committee went on with its work, and
warned the others who were marked to
90, though more time was given them,
and most of them waited and took the
coach which went down TO the lower
camps, and on to the railroad, the next
morning. Reynolds was the only one
who went up the gulch, and consider
able speculation was INDUCED in as to
his destination, rs that route led to no
place in the mining camps.
The next day in the afternoon re-
ports came to Golden Sand Camp
which caused work TO be suspended
and the people to flock together on the
street corners-reportsw which produced
more excitement than did the great
moral upheaval of the day before.
They were reports of depredations by
the Indians.
The Indians had relinquished their
title to the country but they had not
yet given up the idea that it should
belong to them, and they were still
very numerous and aggressive. From
the first stray parties had been at
tackled by them, and every few weeks
the killing of a white man by them in
some part of the Hills was reported.
Now it seemed from the reports that
number had been killed in different
places almost simultaneously. The In
dians were not so numerous as to
cause any fears of general massacre
or attack on the camps, but there
seemed 10 be little hope for scattering
prospectors and small parties moving
into the country. Indeed it was from
the reports of attacks on these, brought
in by survivors. that caused the alarm
in Golden Sand. For the day that
prosperous city INDUCED in but little
else except hurting words of hatred at
the Government pets" as the noble
red men were familiarity referred to.
For the next few days every man who
CdDio inOo camp lOiu al SUI VI ooihO
new victim or victims of the Indians,
or at least of a hair-breadth escape.
One or two instances of families being
killed who were moving into the coun-
try and were not with a sufficiently
strong force to resist the attacks, were
also reported. In the rush to reach
the best points and most prosperous
camps many little parties of perhaps
only one or two wagons had been
tempted to leave the slow ''bull trains"
and press on. Others had left the more
generally travelled trails and attempted
to make a short cut. The Indians
were in little bands scattered through
out the whole country, and nearly
every small party of whites expe-
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